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Peyman Jafari receives VENI grant to research global oil frontiers

8 April 2022 09:25

Great news! Dr. Peyman Jafari, affiliated with the International Institute of Social history and Princeton University, has been awarded a VENI grant of 280.000 euro by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his project Oil Frontiers in the British and Dutch Empires: Land, Labour and Environment in the Making of an Imperial Oil Regime, 1890-1940.

Peyman Jafari

Open Archive selects new artists for third edition

31 March 2022 11:53

Via an open call, artists Alice Wong & Simo Tse, Remco Torenbosch and Daria Kiseleva have been selected for the Open Archive 3.0 project. Open Archive focuses on the creative reuse of archival materials. The participants will use the open digital collections of Het Nieuwe Instituut, Sound and Vision and the International Institute of Social History to create a new media work in which artistic research and the creative process are central.

Open Archief

Andreaspenning voor HSN-vrijwilliger Ben Mouwes

28 March 2022 12:14

HSN-vrijwilliger Ben Mouwes heeft zondag 27 maart de Andreaspenning ontvangen uit handen van Micha Mos, lid van het dagelijks bestuur van het stadsdeel Centrum. Hij ontving de onderscheiding voor zijn grote inzet voor de speeltuinvereniging De Waag, die 100 jaar bestaat. De Andreaspenning wordt toegekend aan personen die grote prestaties hebben verricht op sociaal, cultureel, maatschappelijk of economisch gebied voor Amsterdam, en aan personen die zich minimaal tien jaar als vrijwilliger voor een maatschappelijk doel hebben ingezet.

Ben Mouwes

Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships

22 March 2022 11:51

With the generous support of the Farman-Farmaian Family, the IISH launches a new edition of the fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and economic history of 18th - 20th century Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.

Farman Farmaian fellowship

Rosa Kösters is één van de 12 nieuwe Faces of Science

7 March 2022 13:43

Hoe ziet je leven eruit als je wetenschapper wordt? Twaalf promovendi gaan in video’s en blogs verslag doen van hun dagelijks werk. Onze collega Rosa Kösters (28) is er daar één van!

FoS

ESSHC 2023 call for papers

24 February 2022 15:42

We have decided, after much consideration and in consultation with the Advisory Board and the network chairs, to postpone the congress for a year to 2023.

ESSHC 2023

Open Call: Open Archive 3.0

2 February 2022 15:10

Het Nieuwe Instituut, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) are offering three media makers a six-month residency.

Open archief

Eric de Ruijter new Director of Data & Collections

30 January 2022 17:37

As of 1 February 2022, Eric de Ruijter is appointed Director of Data & Collections of the IISH.

Eric de Ruijter

María Ullivarri (1976-2021)

10 December 2021 13:07

Last November, after a long fight against cancer, our friend and colleague María Ullivarri passed away. Visiting Fellow at the IISH in 2011-2012 and 2015-2016, she also played a key role in the process that led to the creation of our Latin American Labour History Network and its publication, the Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores.

Maria Ullivarri

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind

3 December 2021 10:00

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind, Jan Lucassen's magnum opus,  was published by Yale University Press on 27 July in the UK, and on 31 August in the US. The book is the result of Jan Lucassen's decades of research into the history of work

The Story of Work

With anarchist eyes: Margaret Michaelis and Kati Horna in the Spanish Civil War

25 November 2021 12:13

Photo exhibit at the Public Library OBA Oosterdok - Fourth floor.

14 December 2021 - 30 January 2022. Free entry. 

Información en español aquí

Just before the end of the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, the anarchists of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) managed to safeguard their archives by sending them to the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. 

With anarchist eyes

Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland krijgt een tweede deel

18 November 2021 12:36

Het IISG en het Huygens Instituut gaan samen een tweede deel van de Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland samenstellen. Het voornemen is om het in het najaar 2022 te laten verschijnen.

Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland